As we celebrate Christmas today with family and friends, let us remember and say a prayer for the more than 3,000 political prisoners in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua spending this day separated from their families.
Via the Center for a FREE Cuba:
There are over 3,067 political prisoners in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela today. On Christmas Eve remember those innocents jailed for exercising their rights to advocate for freedom
“Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.”- Hebrews 13:3
Communist regime’s do not stop on Christmas. On December 25, 2009 Chinese dissident and future Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison in a Beijing court in what Human Rights Watch called a “predetermined political trial. ” He had been jailed for more than a year for being one of the authors of Charter 08, an initiative that gathered signatures in a petition calling on the Chinese regime to gradually shift toward democracy. Liu Xiaobo died eight years later on July 13, 2017, less than a month after his medical parole due to terminal liver cancer.
During the 2021 Christmas season, when there was less media scrutiny, the Castro regime carried out dozens of predetermined political trials that had a clear objective: to attempt to terrorize a new generation of Cubans from ever going out to the streets of Cuba to assemble nonviolently and demand an end to dictatorship.
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Communist Cuba, like Communist China, does not have an independent judicial system, nor does it meet international standards of justice. Trials across the island condemned nonviolent protesters that took part in nationwide demonstrations in July 2021. Diario de Cuba reported on December 23, 2021 on one set of proceedings in the courtroom for crimes against state security of the Diez de Octubre Municipal Court were sentences against 15 protesters were handed down that ranged from 12 years to 30 years in prison.
Still jailed today are Dayron Martín Rodríguez, Alexander Guillermo Martínez Amoroso, Miguel Páez Estiven, Lázaro Zamora González, Alexis Sosa Ruiz, Elier Padrón Romero, José Luis Sánchez Tito, Jesús Enrique Vázquez Cabrera, Frank Aldama Rodríguez, Orlando Carvajal Cabrera, Dianyi Liriano Fuentes, Leoalys de la Caridad Valera Vázquez (six months pregnant ), Karen Vázquez Pérez and Brusnelvis Adrián Cabrera Martínez. These last three were on bail until the day of the trial; the rest were in prison.
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And also remember those who are actively and perversely helping these hellish regimes stay in power, like their Latrine enablers, Russia, China and not a few “good” countries and “respectable” people.